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DanaC · 12-29-2006, 11:49 AM

Define a 'simple democracy'.

Self-government is the government a nation chooses/develops/evolves without external impositions. Time and again strong nations have tried to decide what is best for weaker nations and time and again it results in problems. Just because we see democracy as the best possible system of governance, does not mean it is the best system of governance. Even if it is the best system of governance, it is denuded if it is externally imposed on a nation which either does not want it, or where their history and national tendencies subvert it into something else. Democracy works when it is a system arrived at by the people it serves in the natural course of their development or in the wake of great changes. It does not work as an externally imposed system.

Self government is better than good government.

12-29-2006, 11:49 AM	#1
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Define a 'simple democracy'. Self-government is the government a nation chooses/develops/evolves without external impositions. Time and again strong nations have tried to decide what is best for weaker nations and time and again it results in problems. Just because we see democracy as the best possible system of governance, does not mean it is the best system of governance. Even if it is the best system of governance, it is denuded if it is externally imposed on a nation which either does not want it, or where their history and national tendencies subvert it into something else. Democracy works when it is a system arrived at by the people it serves in the natural course of their development or in the wake of great changes. It does not work as an externally imposed system. Self government is better than good government.

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